Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back again" without sounding stupid. In the worst songs of the album-"True Love," "We Better Talk This Over" and "New Pony"-the lyrics fall flat, while the instrumentals and heavy back-up vocals in the choruses compound the injury by making the tunes well-night indistinguishable from a thousand pop-rock songs...
...nearly two months now, bands of heavily armed but bedraggled guerrillas have been straggling back to their base camps inside Angola, mostly by way of Zambia. They are survivors of an invasion force of several thousand Katangese secessionists in exile who massacred 131 Europeans and at least four tunes that many blacks in an abortive effort to liberate their homeland, Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba region, formerly Katanga province. The invaders were driven into the jungle by French Foreign Legionnaires and Belgian paratroopers, called in by Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko, No. 1 enemy...
...Honk If You Think He's Guilty" bumper stickers, given way to advertisements for RN, Nixon's slickly self-serving autobiography; vanished are the chanting, cheering crowds that streamed through the streets of Washington to celebrate on a hot summer night four years ago, replaced by the thousand or so who cheered the man like a hero out of exile when he visited Hardin. Ky. last week. The cheers are not loud, but they are insistent, and growing. After a slow start, Nixon's book has taken off on the bestseller lists, perhaps appropriately like a bat out of hell...
...class neighborhood for more than a year. After being thwarted by the city's requirement of a $60,000 bond to pay for any damage, the self-styled Führer shockingly decided to march instead in Skokie, a heavily Jewish suburb of 66,200 people, including several thousand survivors of Hitler's death camps. Skokie immediately invoked a series of ordinances to stop him, which were all overturned by state and federal courts...
...history is that during the long reign of Mao Tse-tung China produced almost no literature worthy of its tradition. Good living writers were silenced. Bookstores carried mainly the sententious classics of Maoism. That great modern political upheaval, the Cultural Revolution, should have provided the raw material for a thousand creative volumes. It produced not a single novel, story, play or opera published in China. Indeed, were it not for Chen Jo-hsi's collection of poignant stories set in the China of the '60s and early '70s, it is very likely that the entire epoch, during...